Line Out - Comments on Sally Shapiro is the new Annie! http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/05/sally_shapiro_is_the_new_annie Sally Shapiro's new album, Disco Romance, is everything you've been waiting for, that is if you've been waiting for a new album by Annie. And if you're thinking the cover to the album looks a little, well, dated...it's supposed to.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 21 May 2007 12:43:59 -0800 Tue, 22 May 2007 00:24:35 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Eric Grandy Exactly. And just like Annie, America won't know what to do with her, and Shapiro will become a footnote/cult treasure until Light in the Attic gives her the deluxe reissue in 2028, sparking a nu-italo retro revival.

]]> Eric Grandy http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/05/sally_shapiro_is_the_new_annie#c722187 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/05/sally_shapiro_is_the_new_annie#c722187 Album Mon, 21 May 2007 13:25:04 -0800 Comment by Brandon Ivers rigt on, I love sally shapiro! her producer, Johan Agebjörn, did a great italo mix a while back that deserves a listen as well (all the classics are on there):

http://www.welt-am-draht.de/archiv/021106/WAD_johanagebjoern_wegoallnightlong_021106.mp3

]]> Brandon Ivers http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/05/sally_shapiro_is_the_new_annie#c722317 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/05/sally_shapiro_is_the_new_annie#c722317 Album Mon, 21 May 2007 16:08:30 -0800 Comment by Fawkes If you're allowed to make a case for a new Annie from a musician who makes vaguely entertaining dare-free indie-disco rather than internally combusted modern pop, whose album came out last year, I'll pull out all the stops for Robyn, whose two year-old album is finally getting released outside of Sweden, who is effortlessly addictive and magnificent, and everything Annie had promised to be.

]]> Fawkes http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/05/sally_shapiro_is_the_new_annie#c722503 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/05/sally_shapiro_is_the_new_annie#c722503 Album Tue, 22 May 2007 00:24:35 -0800